A Very Busy 2025!
Hello everyone, welcome to 2025 and our newly renovated website!
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After a busy 2024 where we held several revivals, VBS, started a Youth Group and Youth night service, hosted several events for first responders, our local city officials, schools, and universities, 2025 will be no different as we continue to do more work for the Lord!
Our current schedule for services is Wednesday Night at 7PM, livestreamed on both Facebook and YouTube. The website has been updated with ways for you to get to both locations easily. Thursday evenings at 7PM, Common Ground Youth Group will livestream their services on YouTube. Sunday morning services are streamed live beginning at 11am on both Facebook and YouTube.
This post is a general overview of our schedule of events in the year to come. Please make sure to check back frequently for updates to the schedule. We will try to update this site with new information on events and the schedule as frequently as possible, but please refer to the in service bulletin or morning announcements on the livestream for regular updates.
We have a lot of events scheduled for 2025. We will elaborate more on the upcoming events individually as they come closer, but wanted to get the word out now to everyone so they are aware and can begin planning to attend these powerful services!
February
Sunday, February 23, 2025 is National WM Day. The service will be lead by our WM ladies, with our district WM Director Stephanie Jordan joining us as a guest speaker.
March
Saturday, March 8, 2025, Compass (Alleghany County High School Youth) will be joining Common Ground Youth group for a joint youth service at our sanctuary. Anyone ages 13 to 24 are welcome to attend. There will be a meal served at 5PM before the service begins at 6PM.
Sunday, March 16, 2025, Brother Greg Garner will be speaking to the congregation of a message the Lord has laid on his heart.
April
Our First Revival, April 10-13th, these services will be broadcast live and online, but please come and be present in and witness the Spirit of God flowing and moving. Current list of speakers include Pastor Charlie Rose, Pastor Paula Baldwin, and Rev. John Rowe, along with Pastor Teddy Joe Bias! Services will begin at 7PM in the sanctuary.
April will also see our Youth and church volunteers perform their Easter Play. These performances you will surely not want to miss, and though they will be broadcast on both Facebook and YouTube, you will not want to miss the power and meaning of seeing these performances live and in person. They will perform the play twice, once on Easter morning, April 20th, and once again on April 27th.
April will also see the closing of Easter egg sales for Common Ground Youth. April 13th will be the final date orders for eggs will be accepted, and deliveries will begin on April 13.
May
May continues to be busy in the kingdom and working for the Lord, as we have our Mother’s Day service on May 11th.
Our annual business meeting is scheduled for May 13th @ 7PM as we prepare for the remainder of the year, and ensuring that we are doing the work the Lord is wanting us to be doing as a body. This meeting should be attended by all members and only members are allowed to vote on business matters, however, this meeting is open to any that wish to attend.
May 19-23 is our first annual Women’s Week at First Assembly Clifton Forge. Services are for women ONLY, and we invite women from in and around our entire community to come join us for a week of powerful praise and worship for women. Again, services will be held in the sanctuary each night at 7PM and will be broadcast online, but you do not want to miss out on the spirit and atmosphere of God when He is moving. We will announce guest speakers and special guests soon. On Saturday, May 24th, we will hold a gospel sing outdoors with live music and a hot dog sale. All proceeds will go towards the WM fund.
June
We follow up Women’s Week in May with Men’s Week in June! June 9-13 is our first annual Men’s week at First Assembly Clifton Forge. Just as for the women, these services will be for men ONLY, and we welcome men from in and around our community to come and join us. Again, services will be held in the sanctuary each night at 7PM and will be broadcast online, but being in the house and feeling the presence of the Lord is sure to be a powerful experience you will not want to miss. Guest speakers and special guests will be announced soon.
June 15th is our annual Father’s Day service.
And we stay busy, as June 23 – 27th is our Annual Vacation Bible School week! We will have registration open for ages 3/4-19, meals will be provided nightly at 6PM with wrap up and release at 8:45pm. The church bus will be running to multiple pickup/drop off locations, and Friday will be a family fun night with food, live music, games, and more fun!
July
July remains busy, as we have our second Revival, July 11-13 with Reverend Steve Bryan. All services are at 7PM in the church sanctuary and will be available on livestream as well.
July 20-27th, Common Ground Youth will take their second annual trip to Florida for Fire Week!
Also in July, we are working on a Youth Week at our church for all youth ages 13-24 in our community to come and play games and experience the power of God! As this is a “in the works” event, please check back frequently for updates.
September
Our next revival, September 5-7th with guest speaker Reverend David Raley speaking each night at 7PM in the sanctuary. As always, these services will be broadcast live, however, you will not want to miss being in the house for these events live experiencing the presence of the Lord moving in a mighty way!
September 21st is our annual no Sunday school, blue jean Sunday church picnic. Service is at 11, with our picnic immediately following service.
November
November 5-7th, Anthony Saldino from Chi Alpha @ Virginia Tech will be speaking at the church at 7PM each night.
November 25th, our midweek service will be moved to the 25th, and on Thanksgiving, the 27th, the church will be hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner for the church family, as well as anyone in the community. This dinner is open for all to attend.
December
Common Ground Youth Group presents their Christmas play during the services on the 14th and the 21st.
We will be holding a candlelight service on December 24th, for anyone to come and join us as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
And finally, our New Years Eve service will be held on December 31st.
We have a lot of events and guest speakers scheduled this year, as we look to be busier than ever doing work for the Lord. Please visit back to the website frequently for updates to the schedule or guest speakers, or come visit us in service and get updates in the weekly bulletin. If you’re watching online, please listen to the opening announcements each week for changes or updates to our events this year. As we move forward, each event will get its own post and page, so you will know more as to what is happening and what to experience at each event. We hope to see you in person at one, many, or all, of our events this year, and thank you for watching online.
